The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

I iMEfIICI; NlPAsultio - row, Ju 28.-1 lie following is con- I sid:rrd - as an official article - lucre are leatufe , in . the late Order. of the 24th of • May,: that it 'way be of .some Lervice Jli6tinCtly to notice. • , . . . . The arrangements made by 'Mr; Erskine, it is Said, are not such as v. , ele actliorised by his Majesty's instructions . " . or such as his Majesty can approve." }ere is an avowal of the .British Government of an inflexible purpose, unlimited by time or circum stance, either not to make a proper reparation for the outrage .committed on the Chesupeofre, or not tb , r,'.scind the principle of their Orders of the 7th of January anti t ttil of Nut-ember. 2. The.teruporary relaxations of the old Orders in Council are all coupled with one sweeping Coe- dition, to wit, a withdrawal of proteetion from any vessel that shall attempt to enter any port ' "actually blockaded by any of his Majesty's ships of war." Is there not reason to fear that the whole of the enemy's ports will in this way be blockaded by a naval force altogether insufficient for the complete investment requisite to a legal blockade? • and tlat vesssels leaving ports thus d.g blockaded," will, on then • return voyage be seized on the high seas by British cruizers, and carried into.-British .ports for adjudication, for a violation of the blockade ? There is the more rea son to. apprehend that the species of blockade here referred to is -not that recognized by the law of. nation's, as, if it were, there would have been no reason for such a provision: • 3. The Order professes to indemnify American IVlerchants, indeed to avoid any interference with their adventures under the arrangements Made with Mr. Erskine. But this will be round, on investiga tion, to be an idle pretext. The larger number of American vessels were destined for, and will have entered, British ports, with commodities, in part meant for consumption in England, in part for consumption on the Continent. The value of these commodities must materially depend on a sale for them on the Continent. This being almost totally cut , oir by the Order of the 26th April, sub stituted in the room of the previous Orders, the prices of these commodities in British ports have actually sunk, and may be expected to fall much more; and the American Merchant, instead of 'waking a profit, will incur a ruinous loss. A large portion of these shipments to England were, doubt less, meant to be deposited in that country, with a view of future transportation to the Continent. -- This • resource being now almost entirely cut off; a great and steady depression of prices will be in evitable. 'By the disavowal of the British' MiniStry, ;the Order of April lag comes into operation- in lieu Of, the Orders of January and November, )807. Now, .the Order of April, although otherwise represented in most of the public prints, will be found even more rigorous and oppressive to our trade than the preceding Orders. Under these Orders, the direst trade between the United States and the Colonies of the enemies of Britain, and from the United States to the Continent of Europe, throuo a Bri tish .port, and the transportation of American pro duce, cotton excepted, through a British port, to enemies' ports, under certain conditions, were al lowed. By the Order ot April they are, with tri fling exceptions, interdided. The principal trade authorised with the Continent by this Order s is to the ports of-the Baltic 5 allowed, no doubt, by Bri tain, for the express purpose olobtainiog naval sup plies through American bottoms; a trade which will be likely to be inhibited, as soon as it is seen to have this eflea ; and which, independently of this circumstance, would be of very little value to us, but as a small portion of our produce would there find a market. besides 'this trade, the order al lows a trade to the southern parts of Italy, compris ing Naples and a part of the territory of the Church, the whole but of inconsiderable importance, com pared with the ports of Genoa and Leghorn, in the northern part ot Italy, with which all trade is inter dieted. To this may be added, a qualified trade to certain parts of Spain and Portugal, dependent upon their possession by England, which are, however, too trifling and preemie:is to be of much value to us. Under this view of the subje&, the arrange ments made with M r . E rskine, attended by their recent disavowal, wilt be found to operat e as a mere decoy, the em o lli ent l en i tives of the Order of May 24th to the contrary notwitlAtanding.—(Washington lntelligencer.) LTORTING iNTELLIGrNCE. - STOCKTON' MEETING. TtrensoAv‘; - sKrr. 7.- Sweepstakes of togs. each, witty - 24gs. added, for 7, yrs old. colts, Est. alb. tithes, Sst. 21b. Two r miles. FllO ClibCfs„ • Sir H. T. Vane's b. c. Gamecock, by Cockfightcr • IVlr. it.obins6it's br. 1. Miss Bashful, by Stainfoid - Mr. Duneuinbes b. 1. by .lii - r.bictonlan • - 3 2 and 3 tot on Gamecock. Sweepstakes of togs. each, with 2.2g5, adled, 'for all ages. Two.nuile heats. Four Subscribers.' • • Mr. Peacock's b. c. CarliSle, 4 yrS old - walked over. Tlie Maiden Plate Of sol • Two-mile heats. Mr. Phillip's b. c. Sir Thomas l'eatle, 3 yrs old, 7st. gib. . , - I air. Hill's bc. by Ant2eus, 3 rs old, 7st. 91b. - 2'2 Sir H. T. Vane's b. f. 4 yrs old, Sat; 41). - 3 3 Ole pint 6 to 4 on Sir l'hoinas , Teazlc ; after the heat, 2 and 3 to a he won. CURIOUS PASSAGE. TO THE EDITOR. St.a,—Having recently looked into a book called Merlin's Centuries, I met with a passage which seemed to me so curious, that I resolved to publish it, with such explanations as, in my mind, render it very intelligible, and strongly pointed to the com, mencen*nt of the present century. Of thin let others judge as they please. I here send you the whole passage referred to, in the very spelling of the time as I transcribed it : Three werkend wekes (i) in hondredes tould, • A dozeine whol and nal fe beholde ; Ther cumy Hi one of doutefulle size, (2) Quhorn klbionestiall_lieighly prize, Though at fir:a daune hv.change her name, (3) ' And islands twane make bore one Reaume. Newe Race tb-cont from Saxon shor, (4) Threde Icinge cloth g t tro' cradles foure. (s) My sons think on Threde Fdwarde's glorie, (6), Hys yeres ages ben tould in stone. New <Auk of Tyme tell three be three ; Agen come Roiale lutnley ! Then daunceth lamys long his stronde, .• Apd merle days Rath auld Yoglonde. Time's nerve yere's and nine toms shal see, (7) Come second'skepkred lubiley I Auld greye must then be chaunged to grene, Lou ! ther, ages a May dene Quene ! The above is all that is nece,sary for the present purpose. Now I beg the reader's attention to the toliowing notes :- 1. Three working weeks.—The old Bard is writing of centuries, and plainly describes the present gt h. — Three weeks, of six days each, in hundreds, make 1800, or a dozen and half hundreds ; after which comes one. Of doubtful site.--. That is, the present century; about the beginning of which some wits would puzzle us, duriag the whole of it, to find out when it began. 3. Tho' irst dawn.—lt opened with the union of Great Britain and Ireland, the two Islands that make but one Realm or Royalty. 4. The new Race from the Saxon shore.—Can be no other than the illustrious House of Brunswick. In Merlin's time, the whole North of, Germany was called Saxony. 5. Third King doth give front cradles.—Tnis may to some appear mysterious, but it is very pain, if the' last. observation be just. Gracile,. among our ances tors, was a word used metaphorically, for descents. or generations; for the same cradle nursed all the, children of the family. Now his Majesty is the fourill, in the descem of. this new race, and the third Sovereign, his father . having .thed when Prince of Wales. 6. Third Edward's ,Glory..--This part of the pro phecy remains to be fulfilled, and may be worth all . the rest, if it insurer; us (as I am willing to hope) a continuance of the life of our beloved Sovereign , to the extent of Edward the Third. We should hope on this account; that every thing in the above description is really what it appears to be, a prophetic . view of the present generation, which opinion may be entertained without impiety. The allusion I take to be to the famous Jubilee proclaim ed by Edward the Third, iti the fiftieth year of hi's reign, when that great King, full of years and ho•- nour, was preparing to take leave of the world. 7. Times new years and nine turns shall see. — Thu above verses, in my explanation, describe the opening of the present century, nine years turns from which bring us to 1809. In that year his Ma jesty, if he live to the wishes of his subjects, will ac complish the soth year of his reign, and may have second sceptred jubilee. What follows when grey (or age) is to be succeeded by green (or youth,) t will riot pursue, having arrived at the point most earnestly - . wish for, and with which I shall be content. ; Some of your readers may perhaps remark, that the year alluded to is just one century beyond that of Swifi's explanation -of another prophecy Merlin's, but «it h that 1 have nothing to do, further than to observe, that Dr. Johnson, in Writing of it, says, it cannot be read without amusement. Another vessel is arrived from New York, which tailed - one day later than that by which the Presi dent's Proclamation teas brought to this country. — Besides several copies of the documents which we published on Tuesday, ,private. letters have been re ceived by this vessel, which .state that the .Wasp . American sloop o f waf was to sail on the - Itith EXTRACT OF A LETTE R, DATED CAPE OF GOOD ult. ' ROPE, MAY 30, 1809. , with dispatches. for France, in answer to some im- - ~ We continue tile blockade of the Isles of:France portant propositions lately received from the French i and Bourbon with the whole of our squadron,which, Government. Report stated that an amicable ad- ,! having been reinforced by two very tine frigates, is julitment of differences was on the eve of taking very respectable. We are in daily expectation of Oade between America and France, and sore ap- ,i the arrival of two others, when, it is expect e d, th e \ prehensions were expressed that a rupture w ith greater part of the enemy's fOrce, 'it not the Islands Great .Britain would he the consequence. The themselves, will fall into our hands. Their frigates writer co nc l u d es by saying—" It . is now too late ty and cruiters are for the most part at sea. make any shipments, and the o pinion i s , that we j . 4, Th e L'Vereide sailed about three weeks since, shaft have a war with England." This opinion, with dispatches to the French Governor DE CAEN, however, W(4 conceive to be given on very light relating to an exchange of prisoners, and in a .month grounds.' There is nothing of hostility or ayerity or six weeks we expect a cartel. in the language lately . used ,by the Piesident ; and Charwell has just sent in a we are not without hope' that the mission of lAri, " His Nlajesty's ship worth at least 30,0001." Jackson, vested as he is with ample powers, .11 rich Batavian prize, produce the desired end of • re-establi s hi ng pedal amity and friendshi p b etween the two countries. . On Saturday a grand sailing match took place .at Tot bay, between eleven sail of the-Torbay fishing In the late engagement bet weeen the Swedes and smacks, in consequence of three handsome presents Russians in Bothnia, the los s on b ot h s i des was given by Lord COURTNA , Y, They all assembled considerable than we h a d reason to suppose from the first 'accounts. Our C orrespo9dent at Stockholm .: • beautiful yacht Dolphin, and by a signal gun from her, they all started. Great adds, by way of P. S. to his last communication, .the ' skill was displayed by the crews of the different following particulars : --.1. you must have heard, be- vessels ; and atter sailing several. leagues, with 'a fore this reaches you, that there has been an obsti- line breeze, in sight of many spe6iators, the first nate and sanguinary battle. Our loss in killed aad prize was won by the Six Sisters, JOHN. `WHEATEN ; wounded amounts to 1200 men ; that on the part of- the second by the Samuel and Mary, SAMUEL the Russians is estimated at 2300 in killed, wounded, GORLEY ; and the third . by the Phoenix, BARNABAS. and prisoners. The Swedish troops in the field were GREEN. The whole concluded with the greatest about 6000 men ; those of the Russians exceeded harmony, and without any accident. • 10,000. The Swedes attempted t o hit off -the re- The failure of the Banking - house of BLoxii A 111 and treat of the enemy, but in thi s th ey were unsuccess- it' Co. which we mentioned on Tuesday , is very ex ', as the Russians b urnt or d estroye d the bridges winch had favoured their flight to the other side of iensive in its consequences. Its debts amount to up wards" olhall a - million, and the dividend, it is said, Utnea ) w h ole t h ey h ave ta k en up a strong position:i will be very trifling. . ' ' L:INCAS7'ER dISSIZES. Prisnner for two years, knew his writing well, and wai(iropininti:lhaltnterwas - not . s his writing, toe ihrediou of which appeared to. be written by two %lards. ANONYMOUS LETTERS. 7rillirpa 'Filson was indicted fur 'havieg felon oesiV wtitten and sent a letter, 'without any mine sob.eribed thereto; threatening to take away ThnMas SehOlfield, of Merton. 'The "ATTOANEY-GEERAL stated to. the Jury, that the Prisoner was charged with a capital felony, which Was made' so since the seventh of the late King, which makesihe sending such a letter with out a name telony without the benefit of clergy. More threatening language to murder could not be described than in 'the letter. The Prosecutor, it was also stated, had served the office • of overseer for a number of years, and had given such general SatiSfaelion to the Parishioners, that they had voted him a siker cup. Thomas Scholfield said, be was Steward to Mr. Hilsion, of Penington'e he served theoffice of over seer 'nine years ; it was three years since he was in office ; on the 29thef April last, when he went to the Old Black Boy Inn, at Manchester, (the house he usually put up at when in that town), the land lady gave letter, which she had received by the post, dire6ted for him ; it proved not to have any name to it ; the contents of it charged him 'with having done a number Of bad acts to Mr. Penington's tenants, and to the parishioners, while he was over seer, telling him to recollect the death a certain bad charaaer had died, and that before the cock crew thrice, 'as it did to Peter, • he might be no more : and not, to be surprised, when he got home, if his wife told him his property was burnt. It was writ ten in the most low and abusive language; the di rection appeared to be by two hands, and, it was sealed with shoemaker's wax; be believed the writ ing to be the Pi isoner's. The Witness underwent a long cross-examination by Mr. SCARLET :-1-le‘ acknowledged that he had not seen the Prisoner write but once, and that was twelve months since; that he did not make any charge against the Prisoner till. the 26th of Juue, although he received the letter the 29th of April, and that 'he knew the Prisoner's writing; his son was in Lancaster Castle before he made the charge ; he denied knowing that the Prisoner was employed to investigate his son's accounts,• as overseer, and did not know it now ; and said, that, upon the Pri soner's report of his son's accounts, his son was sent to Lancaster Castle ; the reason why he did" not make the charge sooner was, he wished to get all the information he could ; he kept the letter a secret the day he received it, and did not mention it to any body; when he saw the Prisoner write 12 months since, he did not see what he wrote, and Uteri he was about two or three yards diatAnce from him, and did not know what he was writing about ; denied having said before the Magistrates, that the reason for his not making the charge sooner was, he expee.ted he would have made an apology . . Jonathan Scholfield, the son of the witness, said he kneSse the prisoner well; he saw him write a note on the 7th of last April, and several times be sides, and believed the letter his father had received to beehe writing 'of the Prisoner. • . On his crass-examination' by Mr. CRoss, he de nied that the PriSoner had been employed to examine his accounts, but said, he and others" had put them selves- in that osition," and it was in consequence of them he was gent to Lancaster Castle, for not giv ing up his books as overseer ; denied having said that his fathei-AvouH settle the Prisoner for saying that his accounts were wrones; but acknowledged.he had said secertaiu other per;on Would soon follow him to Lancastr Castle, on account of a letter his father had received ; never saw a 'name to the letter, or any taken Off - 3 hau written with the Prisoner for two days together, in settling his accounts. Thomas Hitchin deposed, that he had seen the Prisoner write several times, and wag well acquaint ed with his writing. He believed the anonymous letter received by the Prosecutor to be the writing of the Ptisoner.. The Prosecutor first shewed'him the letter the beginning of June. He was•cross-examined by Mr. SCARLET. Li e ac knowledged that he 'was a tenant of the Prosecutor's; denied having said that he and the Prosecutor were determined on being revenged of the Prisoner for sending the Prosecutor's sou to the Castle, and if, right, would not do' wrong. The Prosecutor's son was sent to the Castle for not deli vering his books, as Overseer of the i'oor, to the Justices. Ralph Ryder had, known the Prisoner for eight or . nine years; had seen hitn write three or four times, and believed the writing of the letter in question to he his writing. On his cross-examination by Mr. Caoss, •he ac knowledged, that when the letter was shewn to him, he formed no opinion respecting its being the hand writing of the Prisoner, till he compared it with the writing of the Prisoner in the parish books.—The letter concludes with cautioning him to beware of destruaion, and to pray God that he might arrive safely at home. The evidence being concluded for the Prosecution, Mr. SCARLET took an objection to the indittment, upon the ground that the whole of the letter was OM set forth in any part of it, but merely by paragraphs or sentences, and they being miceene6ted, therefore the meaning of the letter was uncertain, and he con tended that did not amount to a threatening letter, stating something would be done by the writer, but merely,cautiomed the ProSecetor to be cateful of cer tain evils. The Learned Geotleman cited Lloyd's case, in Mr. East's book, -page 112, from the Here fordshire Assizes, on a reference to the Judges, and" on account of the whole of the 'letter not being set forth, the Judges held it to be bad; Judge CHAMERE thought there was sufficient to go to the Jury, tieing of opinion that the wordy ".be ware of destruction" amounted to a thrdat. Joseph Thorpe, a schoolmaster, said, he had known the Prisoner from i s boy; considered him an inge nious man, being a good mathematician ; they had often been employed in working problems together, and sat cloSe together when' writing The writing of 'the ,letter had no resemblance to the Prisoner's, and had no doubt upon his mind that it was not the Prisoner's writing. . Charles Thorpe, the Constable who conveyed the Prosecutier's son from Manclesster to Lancaster, said, that while he had him in his custody, he said it would not be long 'before the Prisoner would follow him to Lancaste'r Castle, for writing the letter to his father, 'and that his 'case wasThot so bnd as - the Pri soner's. The witness had beeneintimate with the 3l':dge CIIANIRE, in summing up the evidence, ob s,±rved,:thathe never knew writing worse proved, and tile 'idly found iiinl—Not Gailty. • The Prisoner was discharged at the bai. Captain THOMAS STAINES, of the Cyane frigate, of whom such honour-Able mention is made by Sit JoaN. STUART, in the London Gazette of Tuesday, is ihoson of Mr. STAINES, 'formerly of Dandelion. In the very gailirnt anion in winch, with the assist.;' acre of the gun-boats, he took dnd destroy ed the enemy's of forty gun-boats, he lost his left artn by a cannon shot, close to am socket of the shoulder; but we are glad to learn, that, by a letter which has been received from him, writer in very high spirits, that lie is in a fair way of doing well. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an Inquest WE taken before A. GELL, Esq. Coroner for Westmin • ster, on the body of a Gentleman; who shot liiinseif on Monday last at the Angel Inn, St. Clement's The first witness examined was the Waiter, who described the.behaviour of the deceased, on coming into the Coffee-room, as being very singular ; he con.; tinued but a short time in the house before Lie,ret ed to the privy, and soon after the report of two pistols was heard ; on going to the privy the deceaSed was found lying in a shrieking mangled state, hiving dis charged two pistols through his head ; in his p,ct;et was fund several pistol balls, some powder, otnd v.vo or three flints; ri letter was also found in . his pocket, addressed to a Gentleman in Cletnerit's Int., who proved to he his brother. Mr. James You.ing, Surgeon, in the Strand, stated that he was sent for on Monday, about one o'clock, and on 4oing into the privy found the deceased lying as described by the last witness; his scull was 'frac tured, and the brains forced ont about his daubs . ; Hone of the pistols had been pointed against his lett cheek, and the contents had lodged in the back ;talc of his brain ; thf other pistol had been dirpaed agai his right temple. In this state helived near twelve hour's but remained all the tune insensiWei Mr. John Wright, Carpenter, of Mtle-end . , knew the deceased, who had lodged with him Iv wares of two years: He was Coliecting Clerk to an Ale brewer in Mile-end Road. About two years and a half ago his wife died in child-birth 3. and since that time he had been in .a )ow desponding way, so much so, that he would frequently sit and cry for hours at a time. The child died when about two months old, but he had three children alive at present, the elder nine years old. The deceased went to Mar gate last Saturday week, and did not return till Mon day evening last. He went out as usual about ten o'clock on Monday morning, and the witness did not hear any more of him till Tuesday evening when he was informed of his death; he was not wore than twenty-nine years of age. The witness did not know that he was embarrassed ; had enquired at his em ployer's, and fou'nd his accounts there were quite correta. • The brother-in-law of the deceased was also exa4 mined, who stated, that the deceased had been in a desponding way for some time, owing to the 1035 of his wife, and to some pecuniary embarrassments which he laboured under. That despondency had lately increased to such a degree as to render his ,friends very unhappy on his account. The evidence being concluded, the Coroner ob• served,• this was one. of the melancholy instances which so frequently occurred, in which despondency had by degrees increased to lunacy, which had ulti. mately led to ttie dreadful catastrophe, suicide. • A considerable difference of 013411011, however, prevailing amongst the Jury, the Coroner proceeded to take their opinion severally, when it appeared, that of 16, (the number impanelled) nine were of , opinion that no symptoms oh insanity were apparent in the conduti of this unhappy young man, and seven were of a contrary opinion ; and, .in compli ance with the opinion of the majority,. a yerdia of Felo de se, was rettirned. On Tuesday evening an inquest was .held on the body of Mr. Joseph Cooley, at the Angel, Edmonton, who lost , his lite by the shaft of a one-horse chaise entering his beily, when coming to town to his place of residence, Moortields, on horeback, on Sunday evening last, when he survived only a tew hours aster.. The Jury returned a, verdict of Accidental Death. The following is a statement of the late melancholy loss at Meikle Ferry, by Tain, as given in a leiter from a gentleman residing near that place The 'total number lost is 147. The bodies have all been found, except '29." A respe6table tradesman in the neighbourhood of Goswell-street, has undertaken, tor a large win of money, to walk 1 6 20 miles in three successive days, on the north road, limiting himself to twelve hours each day. He starts at on early hour on Monday next : several bets are depending on the issue. Remarkable Epitaph on a tomb-stone at Abercona way, Cornarvoushire . " Here lieth the body ! ot Nicholas Hookes, of Ccinway; Gent. who was the ()lie-and-fortieth child ot hip father, Nil- Hookes, Esri by Alice, his wife, and tne father of seven-and-twenty children. He died the aoth•ot 'March, 1637." - . Sandon and Hitchen, ~the country Bank Note fa bricators, stood in the pillory, at Warwick, on Sa turday last. They were well dressed, very i&upu dent in their behaviour, and vowedvengeance q,ainst their prosecutors. Sir JAMES PULTENEY'S house, .in Piccadilly, at the corner of Bolton-row, was• attempted to be robbed on Tuesday night: About 11 o'clock, two men and a woman ascended on the wall, on the side of Bolton-street, and attempted to get in at the first floor window. This alarmed Mrs. BROWN, the -housekeeper, %Ito, on perceiving them, sprang a rattle, when the villains ran off before the watchmen arrived. Saturday morning two fine boys, apparently not more than :six months old, supposed to be twins, were left at the door of Mr. D.-a. Gentleman re siding in the neighbourhood of Battersea. The little 10;1u/slings were discovered by the gardener last asleep, Carefully wrapped up„in blankets, in a neat cradle, and Laving with them a quantity of linen of different descriptions.. They have been adopted by Mr. D. as his own.